User:Amberkandarian

Amber Rose Kandarian is an American filmmaker with Armenian roots and founder of Impact International Pictures. Kandarian is a graduate of the University of California Irvine and was selected to be a video/multimedia artist scholar at Seven Degrees in Laguna Beach. Shortly after she produced and directed the feature documentary RESPECT THE DOC the first documentary about documentary filmmakers and how they can shift the culture. This film had a theatrical release in California and Sydney Australia. Kandarian also instructed courses on documentary filmmaking at the Sydney Film School.

In 2005 Kandarian moved to New Zealand to edit TVNZ's THE ROOKIE on Studio Two with TaylorMade Media. During this time she won the award for best cinematography at the New Zealand 48-Hour Short Film Festival for her mockumentary BRUISED GOLD, about the dangers of a fictional drug derived from bananas, later to be shown on C4 television.

In 2006 Kandarian was invited to her motherland of Armenia to assist in the BBC production of ‘A Story of War and Peace’. During this trip she exhibited a series of contemporary art video pieces at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA/NPAK). She also became Armenia's first professional female dj. She received her own radio program on HYE FM in Yerevan, Armenia as well. A year later she toured Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Spain as Armenia's first female dj, formerly know as DJ Ambrosian and DJ AmberK.

In 2010 after 7 years in the commercial world of documentary she founded the DOCU-THESIS a hybrid between a documentary and a Master Thesis. She also founded the DOCU-Dissertation, a hybrid between a documentary and a PHD dissertation to be used to help visual learners and University students share their research with a larger audience. DOCU-CASESTUDY was the last hybrid she founded. The DOCU-CASESTUDY is a hybrid of a documentary an a business case study similar to the Harvard Business Reviews written case studies, only in visual form.

Links Docu-Thesis Website Docu-Case Study Website Docu-Dissertation Website Impact International Pictures Website DJ Ambrosian Site